NICE vs. LYON

OCTOBER 24, 2009 Stade Municipal Du Ray, Nice 1 PM ET (19:00 CET, 18:00 GMT) After Tuesday's unbelievable victory at Anfield, we can only hope that the ...

Matchday 9: Toulouse vs. PSG

So, in case you've been living under a rock/aren't a Ligue 1 fan (which actually is technically living under a rock, but that's another topic ...

Summer of 2009: The Recap

[gallery] In this post I'm going to talk about all of the PSG transfers this summer, and give them a letter grade, based on how the ...

WEEKLY TRANSFER ROUND-UP IV

[gallery] OL Gets Serious About The Attack! In: Lisandro Lopez: Lyon finally got their man. JMA's first signing of the summer cost OL 24 mill plus performance ...

Transfer Rumors and Gregory Coupet Responds

Young center back Larrys Mabiala has moved to OGC Nice for an undisclosed fee. I don't have much of an opinion on this as ...

WEEKLY TRANSFER RUMOR ROUND-UP II

[gallery] The transfer rumors seemed to be slowing down, after a few frantic weeks of wild speculation, most of it, pretty outrageous but in the last ...

Thinking Positive Thoughts

More of this, please. Squad list for Lyon: Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina Défenseurs: Apam, Diakité, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Kanté, Rool Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Sablé, Traoré Attaquants: Adeilson, Bamogo, Ben Saada, ...

Right. Moving On.

Putting aside the grim and heartbreaking realities that a)Nice, for the most part, have failed to show the necessary commitment for two of the last ...

What a Freaking Disaster

Coupe de France? What Coupe de France?

Tragically, they're facing the wrong direction. It was that sort of a game. For once, I'm happy that there doesn't seem to be any way to ...

Squad List for Monaco

I don't know if it's a good omen or a sign that I've lost my mind entirely, but I just caught myself singing "Nice allez" ...

Julien Sablé à Nice

[First, I apologize for the infrequency of updates here -- I'm just too busy right now to give Nice the attention they deserve, but I'll ...

Nice 2-0 Auxerre (Highlights)

Report coming tomorrow, as soon as I watch the match, and my soul has time to recover from poor Modeste's awful miss.

Nice 1-0 Le Havre

Doesn't matter how late the goal [video here] came or who the opponent was -- what matters is that Nice are into the semis. Hell ...

Nancy-Nice: Never Mind.

Frozen pitch. Both coaches and captains agreed with the referee that it would be dangerous to play, so everyone went home. With the CdL match against ...

More Adeilson and Other Transfer Bits

For those of you who speak French and/or Portuguese or just like moving pictures, here's Adeilson's presentation. It's hard to conclude much from those four-and-a-half ...

Arras + Adeilson

There's allegedly football being played in the first part of this clip. I have my doubts. Arras 1 - 3 Nice Buts: Bellatrêche (52è) pour Arras; Ben ...

Quick News Roundup

Spellcaster!Anto: "... And when you wake up, you will think I have a full head of hair!" •Squad list for Arras:Gardiens: Letizi, Moreau Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Gace, ...

Newsie Odds and Ends

[Not as scared of Baky and Ben Arfa as he looks. Probably.] •The Grenoble match will be played either a week from today or on the ...

Nice-Grenoble: Never Mind.

Singin' in the rain. Conditions were so bad that the match was postponed yesterday, and then put off again today. For what it's worth, here's the ...

Squad List for Grenoble (And Not Much More)

"So this is snow, huh? I don't get it." Gardiens: Moreau, Ospina Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Hognon, Kanté, Rool Milieux: Coulibaly, Echouafni, Faé, Hellebuyck, Jeunechamp, Traoré Attaquants: Bamogo, Ben ...

ASSE 0-1 Nice + Some Editorializing

Who does he think he is, Gerd Müller? ASSE 0-1 Nice But: Echouafni (20è) pour Nice St Etienne: Janot - Andreu, Benalouane, Varrault, Sauget - Machado, Hautcoeur, Dernis ...

Nice 2-1 Nantes

"With my head, bi- boss! I scored with my head!" Buts: Bamogo (20è), Mouloungui (80è) pour Nice ; N'Daw (8è) pour Nantes Nice: Letizi - Diakité (Jeunechamp ...

That Ben Saada Guy Isn't Too Bad, Huh?

Ability + vision + audacity + 10 pounds of muscle = legitimate future #10 I'll have some sort of report up about the match tomorrow whether ...

Yes, We Have No Ba-Rémys

Despite his admirable, 21-year-old's confidence (which is about 15 years more developed than it was in the picture on the left), Rémy in fact did ...

More on Créteil + Bit of News

"This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." I managed to find the Créteil match and, while I'll spare you a full report (I can ...

A Pair of Reports, One More Thorough Than the Other

The number of times this man yelled "HABIB!" against Lorient: 419. Report the First Alright, so, the Lorient game. Ugh. Fantastic to play like that and get ...

Tiny Little Créteil Preview

I was reading -- by which I mean "looking at the charts and the pictures" -- La Gazzetta dello Sport this morning, and they had ...

Newsie Odds n Ends

[Football. So full of hidden laughs. Or: Old people FTW.] First, the team for tomorrow: Gardiens: Letizi, Ospina Défenseurs: Apam, Cid, Diakité, Gace, Hognon, Jeunechamp, Kanté, Rool Milieux: Echouafni, ...

Nice 2-2 Bordeaux

Where am I? Who are you people? After the first 30 minutes or so of Saturday's match, you'd never, ever have been able to convince me ...